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Every Yahoo workplace is wall-to-wall purple and yellow. Think about what it's like to work there!

I can see this working out once this goes beyond the "initial critical mass of users" hump. Some high-level comments: * There are several organizations, agencies and committees wit…

Not true. Padmapper has multiple DBs. Google can scan apartment listings and show them as results in their format. PadMapper cant. What's the difference? See http://www.craigslist.…

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for i in `seq -w 19`; do echo "http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue0"$i".zip"; done | xargs wget

I would really like at least _some_ part of the Internet to remain a collection of documents, and not a framework-based application.

Codify these guidelines into a "Standard". Give it a name, say "Email Efficiency Specification". In your automated footer, add: "This email was composed to comply with the Email Ef…

Previously on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2362033

I think what he's trying to get across here is that there is a significant amount of overhead that is getting in the way of Google's own culture. Breaking it up into a conglomerate…

See: http://i.imgur.com/efj7m.png "Data provided by MS Academic Search"

You want a story, here's a passionate story! MSR Asia is based in Beijing and is one of the fastest growing research outfits in the world. They're slowly showing up all over the pl…

It is important to differentiate between * Catastrophic failures: You fail so bad that you have no option but to trash everything and start again * Detectable / Manageable failures…

These: http://store.fastmac.com/product_info.php?products_id=458

Every employee has a right (and in some ways, a duty) to criticize his / her employer. This is how a company improves. I am just surprised that given the vibrant startup environmen…

Google actually does do open-domain fact-based question answering for queries like: "what is the capital of china" which are probably closest to Jeopardy questions (technically spe…

I think Ooyala is beautiful. It's a bunch of ex-googlers, I like to think the "oo" carries that. And it's an abstract name, which is ok given their business (not end-user). Accordi…

Personally, I feel this is the Achilles' heel of an otherwise splendid website. Their NIH syndrome forces them to implement everything in C++ ( http://www.okcupid.com/faq : 200K li…

I'm not really fishing for startup ideas, but I'd like to get a sense of consumer pain points that are severe enough that people will pay moderate sums of money for. Good Examples:…

Neat! I was looking for something very much like this!! Two feature requests: 1) Discrete values: I want to track things say on a scale of 1 to 5, or 1 to 10. It shouldn't be too h…

"Peepli Live" ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1447508/ , available on Netflix Streaming) is a satire about the state of farmers in debt in India, and is worth a watch.

If you make an interface that automatically runs this on visitor's browsers and populates a form that users can hit "Submit" (or alternatively, simply make an AJAX call), you can g…

Voice bank algo challenge: What is the shortest sentence (or set of sentences) you can construct that covers all the phonemes required for a voice bank? (Corollary: Convincing some…